Word: adagio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Orchestra, the second movement of his String Quartet, Opus 11, which he later reorchestrated, was performed by the entire string section of the H.R.O. This lush work, somewhat trite in its impassioned repetitiousness and a bit too derivative in its handling of thematic material, requires much control of intonation and dynamics. The strings met its challenge well and, by the enormous crescendo near the end, their tone fairly shimmered with intensity...
Onstage after the encore (Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Orchestra) marched three flower-bearing Soviet musicians: Composer Aram Khachaturian, Pianist Emil Gilels, Conductor Alexander Gauk. Khachaturian spoke Russia's praise for the orchestra. "Bolshoye, bolshoye spasibo [Great, great thanks]," returned Conductor Ormandy amid thunderous applause. And even after the players filed out, hundreds of spectators stayed in their seats, still applauding and crying, "Not enough! Not enough...
...Harbison had to cope with an unprepared orchestra in Mozart's Adagio and Fugue, K. 546. There was little he could do with the out-of-tune strings, and the number might better have been omitted...
This faded Victorian dreamscape is the setting of Vanessa, first opera by Symphonist (Adagio for Strings] Samuel Barber and the first new American work produced by the Metropolitan Opera in a decade...
...Minor. It was the kind of performance-thick-textured, solidly shaped, glowing with suffused light -that Graffman's audiences have come to expect of him. The great, blustery music of the first movement burst from the piano in finger-blurring but perfectly articulated gusts of sound; the contrasting adagio glided as serenely as a gull...